Improvement in lead-pencils



W. A. MURSE.

Lead-Pencils.

Patent ed Dec. 24, 1872 INVENT OR 7A UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM A. MORSE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

iMPROVEMENT IN LEAD-PENCILS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 134,215, dated December24, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. MORSE, of the city and county ofPhiladelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented .certainImprovements in Lead-Pencils, of which the following is a specification:

My improvement and invention consist in providing a common rubber head,now in general use on wood pencils, with a fibrous or suitable materialfor cleaning paper after erasing lead-marks.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l is a perspective view of myimproved erasing and cleaning head attached to a pencil.

W is a rubber head, which may be of the form now common in use. A is thepapercleaner, which I prefer to make of soft cloth or felt, but anymaterial may be used that is best adapted to clean paper; nor do I wishto confine myself to any particular form or style of cleaner, asdifferent-formed rubber heads may require differently constructedpapercleaners to attach thereto.

I attach the cleaner to the rubber head by means of glue or strong gum.

I prefer to use a metallic spring tube to attach the above to a pencil,but paper-tubing, in connection with the cloth wiper or cleaner, may beused insteadof metal; or it may be attached without any connecting-tube.

The merit of my improvement and its advantage will be readilyunderstood, as all have experienced the difficulty of cleaning paper ofthe dirt which always accumulates under a rubber eraser in erasingpencil-marks from WM. A. MORSE.

